ma fête

[beheld_beauty]

Belle allows Jane to handle the guest list, and warns the kitchen that it will be serving many people, and makes sure that the living gardens are behaving themselves about maintaining paths for people to walk along, and she comes up with an enchantment to augment the castle's set of behavior so it can offer up appropriate music at appropriate times. She flies to Luc's village, and fetches him back, and tells him of the coming festivities, and assigns him to develop an introductory description of what enchanting is so that she can delegate tedious repeated introductory descriptions of it to him. Jane gives her advance notice of the nametag conventions, and she considers an enchanting solution but does not think it is best suited; she wishes the system into place instead.

She does like having wishes.

Comments

[manofmyword]

...He cracks up.

[temporal_affairs]

"Very on-theme," says Nathan approvingly, snickering a little.

[colorshapes]

"Me too, me too!"

[beheld_beauty]

"You're just as bewildering as Lazarus to look at," Rose remarks. "Hundreds of - colored shapes."

[manofmyword]

The Joker giggles, kisses Nathan, and ruffles the munchkin's hair.

Then he turns to Beast.

"Enough fun with mindscapes?" he inquires.

[deslandes]

"Mm," says the Beast.

"My love, can they borrow me now?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Of course." She kisses his cheek.

[deslandes]

He beams and hugs her.

Sue links up the Jokers, and somebody teleports the group of them to an appropriately sized guest room. The amount of snuggling going on in the ballroom is abruptly diminished.

[she_sells_seashells]

"Hey Sherlocks and Tonies!" calls Shell Bell. "Want to see Rose's party trick? She can tell you what your mindscape looks like!"

[sicaria]

"All right," says Pearl, as spokes-sherlock. The entire cluster follows her over toward the Bells.

[beheld_beauty]

Rose laughs and carries on with her party trick. There is somewhat less variance, with many Sherlocks and Tonies turning up the same handful of houses as their mindscapes.

[toblameforit]

All the associated pairs have the same house as their mindscape, even though the details always differ - more attention paid to this room over that, loose objects placed differently. And there are architectural differences between the two different pairs whose mindscapes are the same New York mansion.

[guiltless]

One of the Eosian guests drifts over to admire the squared illusions hanging in the air.

[beheld_beauty]

"Do you want your mindscape read too?" inquires Rose.

[guiltless]

"...Sure," he laughs.

[self_composed]

"Uh," says Stella. "Maybe you don't want to read it, though, Rose."

[beheld_beauty]

"Hm? Why not?"

[guiltless]

"I have a power," he explains. "I've got this kinda dreamworld thing and it has people in it. I have no idea what they get up to when I'm not around, though, 's why I want you to look."

[beheld_beauty]

"And it might be something I wouldn't like to witness?" Rose asks Stella.

[self_composed]

"Quite possibly!"

[beheld_beauty]

"Well, I can back out quickly, if it is," says Rose, and she shrugs and peers around for Sandy's mindscape.

[guiltless]

Sandy's mindscape is currently a large mostly-empty warehouse with a bloodstained concrete floor, containing four men who are inventively adding to the bloodstains. They all seem to be having lots of fun.

[beheld_beauty]

Yeah, she backs out.

"Well," she says. "Thank you for warning me, Stella."

[guiltless]

"Why, were they up to the usual?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Does the usual involve a lot of - apparently enjoyable bloodletting?"